Comments on: Is Steve Clemons Right? — Will Bush Bomb Iran?

By: ron

ron — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:15:07 +0000

If Bush bombs Iran, McCain can pack it in. I say stop Iran, or slow them down. Iran is taking part in killing U.S. troops. This has to STOP!!!

By: Marycatherine Barton

Marycatherine Barton — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:21:20 +0000

I have concluded that the only way possibly to prevent Bush/Cheney from attacking Iranians is if Israel/AIPAC asks them not to, or at least stops pressuring them and the evils in Congress to, and that the only way to pressure this Lobby and Israel to so stop is via the Jewish people letting them know that there will be a dire price to pay if they don’t. Please contact all the Jewish people you know, especially those who are influential, and plead with them to take such a strong stand and diligently lobby Israel and the Lobby to back off or they will withhold all their support from them in a big way, to put it mildly.

By: Marycatherine Barton

Marycatherine Barton — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:07:39 +0000

You are so right, Max. The people from the so-called anti-war movement that comes closest to not being gutless and useless is PinkCode 4 Peace. As you say, all of this so-called rational thinkers who conclude that no, our obscene federal government will not attack Iranian are nuts. Like you said, Roberts, Raimondo, and I add you, Max, are my heroes.

By: Ames Tiedeman

Ames Tiedeman — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:10:10 +0000

I predict we bomb Iran in Q2, 2008.

By: Kian Kiani

Kian Kiani — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:59:50 +0000

Voice of America and Fiasco at Persian Service.
Millions of dollars are spent in Persian Service of Voice of America but the end result is nothing but scandalous way of management and programming.
It is hard to believe but the Persian Service which supposed to be an organization to convey the policy of the U.S. has become a free platform for hard-line terrorist group of communists who attack the United Sates!
I have the documents in writings to prove that these were done with the knowledge of the management.
I used to work there and as I said before, I have all the documents in writings.
The manager is a woman called Sheila Gandji who can not read and write Persian. Therefore, in order to hide this shortcoming from the higher management, she has hired an eighty something man called Kambiz Mahmoudi who has a lengthy background as crook and in charlatanism.
You expect a doctor to be in charge of a medical clinic. You expect an engineer to be in charge of an engineering department. You expect a plumber to fix your plumbing.
So why you expect a person who has no education in Iran or the language of that country should be in charge of publicity, literature or politic for such important position?
Sheila Gandji falsely pretended and presented herself as educated with background in journalism. These are all fabrications. Nobody in Iranian communities inside or outside has any knowledge about her being a journalist then and now.
Her partner, Kambiz Mahmoudi is a hateful and despicable person whose activities as crook are widely known through out Iran. Can’t the U.S. government appoint somebody without such shameful background?
Don’t think that this is a personal vendetta.
Let me quote you a view from another media:
“The Iran Steering group concluded that much of the anti-American perspective that is broadcast is the result of decisions made by station managers in Washington D.C. and Prague. Sheila Gandji, the manager of Persian service has faced sharp criticism, particularly for her decision to stop VOA shortwave radio program in July, 2006 in order to focus on television broadcasts, which are more susceptible to censorship, since the government regularly confiscates satellites dishes in order to prevent the infiltration of foreign broadcasts.”
The bizarre situation at the Persian Service of Voice of America caused the Republican Senator Coburn to write a long letter to President Bush about the fiasco there.
It is only in America where the government pays to be insulted. Really, why
Voice of America is doing this harm to our nation?
Do you want more information? Write me: ijadi14@yahoo.com

By: Kiwi

Kiwi — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:58:51 +0000

re: “biological weapons”

White House locked down…

The Secret Service put the White House on the new, high-level, code “brown” alert yesterday when a strange substance was found on the ground in the Rose Garden area. Senior officials, on the condition of anonymity, initially said the the strange material appeared to be Iranian or North Korean in origin. President Bush and V.P. Cheney were hustled away to their underground bunker as a safety precaution. A sample was sent to the FBI labs for analysis and although it is unverified, an unnamed official said that the tests revealed it was an old piece of Barney’s morning business. President Bush refused comment and left on Marine One for his Ranch in Texas where he planned to clear brush over the weekend. combined services

By: Andrew P

Andrew P — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:47:48 +0000

I’m wondering - what deterrent power does Iran have? Do they have biological weapons that could wipe us out? I suspect they would release such stuff if the regime knew that it was going down. Its Hezbollah proxies would take vials of their worst agents to US public places such as airports, shopping malls, etc, and break them. How reasonable is it that Iran has such weapons? Very. The USSR developed doomsday bioweapons in the last years of the empire. A lot of Soviet scientists went to work for Iran after the USSR fell in 1991.

By: michael krug

michael krug — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:32:42 +0000

Unfortunately I think there are far more signs that Bush plans to attack Iran, than the opposite. So, on balance, I think we’re heading for war - again! I say war, because an attack to neutralize Iran’s nuclear programme may well escalate into something far worse - war with Iran that may even go nuclear. This sounds dramatic, however, it would be foolish to discount the risk of the US sliding into a nuclear conflict with Iran.

What happens if Iran doesn’t just take the air attack on the chin and launches a massive wave of retaliation against US forces in the Gulf and in Iraq? They could do a lot of damaged to US ships in the Gulf. How will the US react to Iran sinking American warships? What about if they damange or even destroy an aircraft carrier? How will US public opinion respond to this? All mainstream US politicians are hostile Iran. How will the current crop of candidates for President react to Iranian retaliation?

Bush is more or less unstopable now. We are on a hair-trigger for war with Iran. If he chooses to attack who could stop him? No one, because there isn’t time with only a few days notice. Bush regards stopping Iran for getting their hands on nuclear weapons as his sacred duty, part of his destiny and his legacy to the world. So let’s all hope he changes his mind before it’s too late, thought I wouldn’t bet the farm on it! What is really scary, is that in reality it’s all up to him. It’s his call.

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By: 1984

1984 — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:07:50 +0000

There’s no way the PNAC people stop it’s will to further occupy more countries, and Iran has for long been seen as important.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:37:21 +0000

You and Clemons are deep denial rationalists on the level of Neville Champerlain.
You lack the needed the intuition to grasp you have a megalomaniacal psychopath as the POTUS, and nothing short of a military coup d’ etat can stop the evil of a pre-emptive war against Iran.
Your inability to comprehend evil and the power of its momentum is both destructive to the anti-war movement and an enabler for Bush.
i tell you there will be an vicious dark evil pre-emptive war started by the U.S. and one the guarantees of this is the rational analyzers like you and Clemons that think of all these reasons why this war won’t happen as you fail to grasp you are dealing with a Hitlertarian-similitude group of thugs and they are NOT going away.
i view your , “let’s not get alarmed”, as cowardice.
The rational intellectual is oft(not always) a weeny when it comes to confronting hard realities.
i applaud Craig Paul Roberts and Justin Raimondo that have both the intelleclect and the INTUITION to see what is coming hard upon us.
Read the Black Swan to understand why you and Clemons are so predictable, it is called the power of DENIAL, and it is commonplace.
As for an anti-war movement, look i am a hardcore radical activist from the late 50s to late 70s and i can assure you the anti-war movement now is both gutless and useless.
And you and Clemons are a big part as to why.
The shame on you in the future will be the same shame as that of the died in disgrace PM N.Champerlain.
i hope you save this e-mail so you can read again after the Bush and Thugs attack Iran.Max p.s.Wake Up!!!

By: John Lowell

John Lowell — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:43:30 +0000

“What it really is that people are in denial - even people who should know better because of the fact that they were antiwar and anti-Bush and anti-Neocon to begin with. It’s purely a case of cognitive dissonance - people simply cannot believe that this government, already mired in the worst losing war in US history, is prepared to start one which will be four to ten times worse.”

Not so sure of this interpretation, Louis. Where you see denial, I see agreement. Who among the Democrats, for example, would be apt to raise questions after the resolution which passed so easily against Iran earlier in the year. And if there is genuine disagreement anywhere among them, AIPAC money is sure to fix that. There are few that will resist in any important way when the time comes, and that because of what they perceive as being in their self-interest. Always remember that you are dealing with vermin when you have a “public servant” in your sights.

John Lowell